Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-11

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Johnsburv. Samuel lives in the old
homestead, and is a fourishing boot
and shoe dealer and manufacturer,
successor to his father, who died
March 21st, 1876. Aunt Charlotte
Is still living, at the advanced age of
S3, her birthday coming in one week
from this anniversary. Her home is
with her daughters at St. Johnsbury.
Her health is not such as to permit
of her being present to-day.
Amos p. Bean, born Nov. 27th,
1906. OF my fathers early life |
know but little. He was the fourth
child of the family, and if l may
Judge from what has been told me,
was one of those resolute, stirring,
fun-loving boys, much the same as
one sees in the youths of to-day.
Many are the mischievous pranks l
have heard him relate, as being per-
petrated upon some member of his
family, usually the female portion of
it. He invented many plans to escape
certain tasks which he detested, as
BOYS will. At one time his father
set him to planting potatoes. He
went into the field, dug cavity large
enough to hold all the seed, poured it
all in, and covered it up, leaving it so,
probably having the time to himself,
until the ruse was exposed. At an
other time, as was customary in those
DAYS, the minister came to make a
visit, stopping over night. Immedi-
ately after the morning meal, the
family assembled in the sitting-room
for devotional exercises. Ny father
was missing and could not be found.
When in the midst of devout pray
er, all in the room were suddenly
brought to their feet, by the loud re-
port of firearms, coming from the
kitchen. On opening the door lead
ing to that room there stood my faith
er, looking like the culprit that he
was. "Amos," said his father stern
ly,"what in the world are you doing 2"
He replied that seeing a squirrel in
the back yard, he thought he would
quietly take the gnn from the hook,
and 60 out and shoot it, when the
pesky old thing went off as soon as
he touched it. The bullet hole made
through the floor, was for many years
a reminder of the incident. 1t must
have been about the time he was 81,
that he went to Three Rivers, Can,
to work in the numbering regions.
Afterwards in Hatley, p. O., he was
employed in a mill for cloth dressing
and dyeing. Shortly after he came
back, Nov. 18th, 1884, he married
Miss Phila f. Sartwell, and settled
on the home farm. He raised a large
family of children, five daughters and
four sons, all of whom are now liv-
ing, except the youngest girl, Ida,
who died when she was a little more
than a year old. Three of the daugh-
ters now reside in this vicinity.
Harriet, now Mrs. Chaplin Leonard,
Emily, Mrs. @. S. Whitney, and Eli
"a, now Mrs. n. NJ. Scott. The old
est son, A. j. Bean, lives at Concord
junction, and has charge of the har-
ness department in the Reform Pris-
on. NJ. p. Bean has been many
years in Lanesboro, MINI, where he
also carries on a successful saddlers'
business. The two younger boys, "A.
2. and c. p. Bean, live on the old
homestead, and are prominent farm
ers and business men. My father
always took much interest in political
matters, ever voting the democratic
ticket, and ever ready to defend his
party. He served the town
as one or another of its officers many
years. Went in the years of 1S43,
'58 and '59 to Montpelier as repre-
sentative. He died Nov. 1G, 1875,
nearly 81 years of age. He was a
great reader, very early riser, often
getting up at o'clock in the morn
ing, and spending the time with his
books and papers, until the other
inmates of the house were astir.
When about 30, he cut loose from
that terrible habit Of smoking and
chewing tobacco, of which he was
an inveterate user, and never after
wards resumed it. Generous TO a
fault, perfectly independent in his
manner of speaking and thinking,
it mattered not to him, if he was
convinced that the principle Of a
thing was right, what the world
thought about it, and it always found
an able defender in him. His wild
ow Is still living in the family Of her
youngest son, a beloved and honored
mother to her large family.
PhRbe Bean, born Sept. 18th,
1908. When p years of age, she
married Orrin French, Nov. 18th,
1880. She died May 27th, 1882,
leaving a son only one week old,
George b. French, who died with
consumption when about II years
old.
Eldad +. Bean was born April Il.
1911. At the age Of p he went 70
Chelmsford, Mass, and was en-
ployed in driving a milk cart, and
farming, for a period Of six years.
He spent the winter Of 1887 at home
Nov. 2sth, 1889, be married Miss
Sarah Sweetser of Westford, Mass,
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